I am totally surprised to watch 15 Park Avenue a filmby Arpana Sen. The movie has received National Film Award in 2005. I love off-beat cinema and specially movies of Konkona Sen and Rahul Bose. Some days back I had watched Before the Rains , again a Rahul Bose movie but 15 Park Avenue has come like a surprise. Because I was already pondering upon the psychological disease Schizophrenia, and the movie is about the same disease.
Konkona (Mitali) suffers from Schizophrenia. Since childhood she is affected to some extent with this disease but after a rape incident she is totally taken by it. She lives in her imaginary world where is married and has 5 children. The movie begins at the scene where she is looking for her home at 15 Park Avenue and the movie ends with the same scene.
It is difficult to decidewhat themovie is about. Some has tagged it as a Rape movie, another point was Sister relationship between Shabana Azmi and Konkona Sen but to me it seemed as the disease centered movie which takes you deep into the disease Schizophrenia and let you experience how it happens with the sufferer and with their caretakers.
To me the experience of watching the movie was - I could be the one suffering from Schizophrenia. Because I always knew that I was on the verge of the world of Imagination and Reality. I always wanted to go in the world of imagination because I would not have to responsible for my acts, and I would not have to care at all. But somehow I carried on in the real world and accepted that I am totally Sane. But... the secret that no one would believe is - Sometimes when I am too much stressed and depressed, I feel I am on the verge of it.
If ... if anyone around you is a little bit psycho or Schizophreniac please watch the movie, you can learn a many things. Specially that why and how it happens. Konkona and Shabana are truly fantastically amazing. The psychology is all onto my mind and I think I can't go to sleep without feeling a little bit Schizophreniac.
Watch the movie, and you would know the Indian Cinema is best than anything.
Konkona (Mitali) suffers from Schizophrenia. Since childhood she is affected to some extent with this disease but after a rape incident she is totally taken by it. She lives in her imaginary world where is married and has 5 children. The movie begins at the scene where she is looking for her home at 15 Park Avenue and the movie ends with the same scene.
It is difficult to decidewhat themovie is about. Some has tagged it as a Rape movie, another point was Sister relationship between Shabana Azmi and Konkona Sen but to me it seemed as the disease centered movie which takes you deep into the disease Schizophrenia and let you experience how it happens with the sufferer and with their caretakers.
If ... if anyone around you is a little bit psycho or Schizophreniac please watch the movie, you can learn a many things. Specially that why and how it happens. Konkona and Shabana are truly fantastically amazing. The psychology is all onto my mind and I think I can't go to sleep without feeling a little bit Schizophreniac.
Watch the movie, and you would know the Indian Cinema is best than anything.
